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I recently switched my default search engine to DuckDuckGo<\/a> on all my devices. Google has become too frustrating over recent months. For example, I recently tried to find a post on my own website called \u2018Hitman<\/a>\u2019. Searching for \u2018andrewdoran hitman\u2019 on Google was useless, whereas DuckDuckGo has the post as the first result.<\/p>\n

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I recently switched my default search engine to DuckDuckGo on all my devices. Google has become too frustrating over recent months. For example, I recently tried to find a post on my own website called \u2018Hitman\u2019. Searching for \u2018andrewdoran hitman\u2019 on Google was useless, whereas DuckDuckGo has the post as the first result.<\/div>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"status","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-status","6":"category-snippets","7":"post_format-post-format-status","8":"h-entry","10":"hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9041,"url":"https:\/\/andrewdoran.uk\/blog\/2022\/05\/19\/hitman\/","url_meta":{"origin":10371,"position":0},"title":"\ud83d\udcda Hitman","author":"Andrew Doran","date":"19 May 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"To me there is something beautiful about a brotherhood of big, tough men who only pretend to hurt one another for a living instead of actually doing it. 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